Kop van een monnik, Carl Bloch, 1888
Carl Bloch, portraitCarl BlochDanish, 1834–1890

Kop van een monnik

1888 · Print

Can I see it?

Unknown

Where is “Kop van een monnik” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum

About the work

Museum text in Dutch

Kop van een lachende monnik, naar links.

Rijksmuseum

Details

Accession number
RP-P-1995-441

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

In the life of Carl Bloch

The whole life
  1. 1886

    Death of his wife Alma

    Alma's early death weighs heavily on Bloch; left alone with their eight children, he finds it very hard to cope.

  2. 1888 · Award

    Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog

  3. 22 February 1890

    Dies of cancer

    Bloch dies of cancer; Sophus Michaelis writes that his death came as an abrupt blow for Nordic art.

  4. 22 February 1890

    Died

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On view at Rijksmuseum

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